Re: What is in BlockCache?

2013-05-21 Thread Jean-Daniel Cryans
The reference guide has a pretty good section about this: http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#block.cache What do you think is missing in order to fully answer your question? Thx, J-D On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:07 AM, yun peng pengyunm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, All, I am wondering what is exactly

What is in BlockCache?

2013-05-20 Thread yun peng
Hi, All, I am wondering what is exactly stored in BlockCache: Is it the same raw blocks as in HFile? or does HBase merge several raw blocks and store the merged block in cache to serve future queries? To be more specific, when a get operation entails loading of block b1 from hfile f1, and of

Re: What is in BlockCache?

2013-05-20 Thread Anoop John
So in BlockCache, does HBase store b1 and b2 separately, or store the merged form? store b1 and b2 separately.. Stores the blocks read from HFiles. -Anoop- On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:37 PM, yun peng pengyunm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, All, I am wondering what is exactly stored in BlockCache: Is